Date: August 5th, 2076
Location: Hong Kong
Mr. Johnson: Sacristán
Team: Carbon Copy, Fender, Rex Dart, Steps in Shadows, Woodstock
Run Type: Asset Destruction
Overview: Sacristán instructs the team (now on retainer for the Olaya Cartel) that they must find and destroy the Smoke Circle Society’s four-hundred-kilo shipment of Red Orchid before it arrives in Hong Kong..
The runners arrive in Hong Kong, and after a few days of laying low, Sacristán brings them up to date at their temporary lodgings just outside of the city. The monthly four-hundred-kilo shipment of red orchid from Kalokdam’s Golden Triangle fields is arriving in Hong Kong by boat. It’s in the Olaya’s best interst to prevent the Smoke Circle Society from getting the shipment in order to deplete their stores. The shipment is arriving on a small merchantman to an outlying island on the southern coast of Hong Kong. The players are to go out with a pirate crew, dive over the side during the night, attach the mine, and sink the vessel. Sacristán has hired the Pok Guy, a refitted yacht, operated by Captain Teng. A veteran of the South China seas, the gracious Han smuggler is aware of the nature of the operation.
Once they are at sea, and getting comfortable, the captain subtly wonders why the runners would sink a half a million worth of drugs rather than seize it for themselves. The runners start wondering the same thing. During the course of the second day, the Pok Guy hits a squall and the team is forced below decks. By night the worst is over, but as they approach the merchantman’s coordinates, they find that the target has veered off course and looks to be heading southwest of Hong Kong. Teng lays an intercept course. The team makes their way to the target, and use a hand-held millimeter-wave radar device to scan for a spot on the hull with enough metal to hold the mine. After several passes, they fail to find a good spot… it looks like they need to board the vessel after all.
In the pouring tropical rainfall, the ship is unnaturally quiet. Only the running lights are on; the bridge, crew quarters, and cargo hold are dark. After a few moments on deck, the team is attacked by what appears to be shambling corpses of the crew. The monsters try their best to kill the team—they do not want their new home compromised. A fight ensues with the spirit-possessed zombies in the darkness of claustrophobic corridors or the rain-drenched cargo deck of the ship, but ultimately the runners prevail. A brief argument about whether they should destroy the drugs, or try to salvage them, the team tosses the overboard, and Woodstock commands a water spirit to do the work for them. They escape of the Pok Guy, and return to Hong Kong.
Rewards:
4 Karma per person